| SwissINSO Holding, Inc. (OTC.PK: SWHN)
SwissINSO Holding, Inc.’s mission is to foster the promotion of social, economic and environmental value for its customers, employees, business partners and shareholders by providing innovative, "green" products and services.
The world's supply of oil is running out and global warming continues to worsen. Burning of fossil fuels is dramatically increasing energy costs and releasing enormous amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere annually.
There is continuing pressure on governments and industry to reduce CO2 emissions (Kyoto conference) and to actively pursue alternative energy solutions. As a result, governments are offering incentive payments (energy credits) and tax rebates to encourage the adoption of solar thermal energy solutions.
Photovoltaic and thermal solar captors are currently among the most efficient non-polluting alternative energy sources. However, the high capital investment associated with installing large-scale solar panel fields is often dissuasive.
SwissINSO provides effective solar energy solutions at attractive cost that meet these industrial, commercial and humanitarian needs.
KRYSTAL Solar Water Purification
The company will focus its activities on the huge and growing demand for affordable, localized, and continuous supply of clean water in large parts of the world experiencing supply shortages. End-user applications include drinking water, water for sanitary and household use, and water for agricultural needs.
A further relevant category is the strategic need for mobile water relief, resulting from natural disasters such as floods, droughts, quakes, tsunamis, hurricanes etc. , When coupled with power breakdown, the need for immediate water delivery becomes acute. Such relief extends to defense applications, such as rapid deployment forces, and strategic intervention in the case of critical water supply being disrupted by an act of war.
In Asia and Africa (both extremely hot and water-deficient regions), where demand for drinking water is doubling every year, two-thirds of the population currently has no direct access to healthy drinking water.
Governments, local communities, industrialists and NGO's are struggling to find cost effective solutions as the situation worsens. In India, for example, approximately 650,000 m3 of additional drinkable water capacity will be required by 2015.
SwissINSO will offer cost effective and logistically practical solutions to this problem by providing autonomous, solar powered water purification / desalination and bottling units hosted in transportable containers. These units combine exclusive membrane technology with state of the art photovoltaic panels to achieve the first truly green solution to water drinking water shortage.
Each unit is capable of converting brackish, sea or spoiled surface water into 100,000 liters / day of high quality drinking water. The market is conservatively estimated at 1000 units per year. The company already has firm indications of interest for these units from India and is in advanced negotiations with other geographic areas.
Free from conventional energy sources and unbeatable low running costs compared to non-solar units.
Debris Removal Filtration
Polluted water is pre-filtered through an automatic self-cleaning filter for about 30 seconds to remove all solid particles and debris greater than 100 µm.
Purification/Desalination Process
Ultra-filtration (UF) by reverse osmosis removes all suspended solids, turbidity, viruses, bacteria, and most organic compounds.
The water is forced through a series of circular membrane plates in two separated streams: the filtrate and the concentrate. Filtrated water is periodically backwashed to remove more accumulated suspended solids with the purified water flowing into an atmospheric tank, or feeding a bottling line.
The pumps and compressor are powered through an array of photovoltaic panels.
KLYMA Solar Thermal Control
The company's High Efficiency Solar Cooling system is aimed at the construction industry's continued efforts to find cost effective alternative renewable energy and architecturally innovative design solutions for cooling / air conditioning of large industrial, public and commercial office sites.
While solar energy applications have thus far been used primarily as a substitute for grid-supplied electricity, their relative inefficiency has limited their value-added to addressing around only 30% of a building's cooling energy needs, and this is accompanied by high investment cost and long payback metrics (government subsidies notwithstanding).
Geographically, the system is optimally operational in regions with 200 + days of sun exposure, which also have the largest demand for air conditioning.
In hot ambient climates, air conditioning is considered a necessity in industrial buildings and commercial premises to improve working conditions and increase productivity. However, energy costs are often cost prohibitive.
An effective alternative is to cover the external envelope of the building with glazed cladding sun collector panels to supply the necessary energy to run the entire cooling system for the building.
SwissINSO will be the sole manufacturer worldwide of these unique colored cladding solar panels, offering a new aesthetic perspective to architects and solving a major design dilemma in these regions.
Working with architects and engineers, SwissINSO will provide turnkey solutions for the supply of efficient, low-cost air conditioning using a double effect absorber to transform hot water from the solar collector into cool water circulating inside the building.
The market for a self-powered, air-cooling solution to the building industry is huge. We can count on a strong buy in from leading architects, major construction companies and curtain wall manufacturers to promote the solution and generate rapid revenue growth.
Architectural Thermal Solar Collectors
SwissINSO has executed a Technology Transfer and Research Agreement with the Solar Energy Laboratory of the Swiss Institute of Technology (LESO-EPFL) to manufacture and commercialize their nanotechnology magnetron sputtering process to color coat solar collectors.
· The LESO has spent over 35 million CHF developing this highly advanced nanotechnology
· Numerous academic publications have validated the technology - http://leso.epfl.ch/e/research_nanotec.html.
· The technology has been developed over the last seven years and currently has at least a 5 year advance on any competition
· EPFL provides SwissINDO with an ongoing R&D pipeline granting them commercialization opportunities on any future discoveries related to the coatings by magnetron sputtering for colored glazing of solar thermal collectors.
· The future LESO Pipeline currently includes e.g. thermal paint, corrosion resistant solar collector coatings, and a new highly efficient solar collector
Technology Partners
SwissINSO has signed a manufacturing and technical cooperation agreement with MFT, a pioneer in membrane filtration water purification technologies, and a technology transfer and research agreement with EPFL covering their revolutionary process to color coated glazed solar panels (a new perspective for architects).
Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB) of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
SwissINSO signed a technology transfer and research agreement for intellectual property in support of revolutionary vacuum magnetron sputtering coating of glazing for solar collectors. The agreement includes exploitation rights of any patent obtained from future developments made by LESO - EPFL in this field.
Membran Filtrations Technik GmbH (MFT)
The company also has exclusive rights to patented membrane filtration technology, technical know-how and assistance in technology transfer of reverse osmosis purification manufacturing process, including exclusive rights to use and adapt these technologies in the development, manufacture and sale of solar powered water purification solutions.
Leadership
Michel Gruering, Chairman and President, Founder SwissINSO SA
Michel Gruering is a highly accomplished global executive with over 20 years of experience in international business, negotiation, strategic implementation and development. He spent a large part of his career to date in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, holding leadership positions at numerous multinational companies and humanitarian NGOs. Gruering founded SwissINSO in 2006, managing the company's start-up process and identifying research laboratories with technologies that could be used for innovative applications. He negotiated a wide variety of cooperation, technology transfer and distribution agreements while also securing financing for the company's development. He is an acknowledged expert on issues related to sustainable energy and resources and is focused on commercializing the company's cost-effective solar-powered applications for air-cooling and water desalination/purification. Gruering is a Swiss citizen and a graduate of the Superior School of Commerce in Switzerland and holds a degree in Political Science. He is fluent in French, German and English and lives in Switzerland.
Dr. Yves Ducommun, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Dr. Yves Ducommun has spent 9 years as an academic/lecturer at the University of California and the University of Lausanne. He comes to SwissINSO after 10 years as a successful CEO of an international company with 500 employees and an annual turnover of $120 million 25% EBITDA margin, and 34% growth per year over last five years. Notably, his previous experience includes 6 years as Sales and Marketing Director in the glazed curtain Wall industry. This industry supplies glass curtain wall panels that are used to cover the facades of glass buildings as part of their architectural design. On the operations management side, Dr. Ducommun has set up manufacturing plants in Switzerland and China. Dr. Ducommun has a background in Chemical Engineering from the Swiss Institute of Technology EPFL, with a specialization in Solar Energy. He holds a PhD in Applied Sciences in the field of Water Purification Mechanisms, and an MBA from IFIA Lausanne.
Clive Harbutt, Director
Clive Harbutt is Founder and Managing Partner of SICG S.A. – Swiss Investment Consulting Group based in Geneva, Switzerland. SICG works closely with VC funds and Investors in the domains of Technology, Cleantech & Life Science to provide support on various non scientific and technical challenges which investors and companies face as they move towards their eventual liquidity crystallization. Born and raised in London, England. He is a qualified accountant and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He has lived in Switzerland for 20 years.
Timothy Tolhurst, Director
Mr. Tolhurst is a highly-experienced global executive with over 25 years of supply chain management expertise. He is currently Executive Vice President and Chief Purchasing Officer for Dutch life-sciences company DSM BV, and was previously Global Vice President, Global Supply for Firmenich SA, the largest privately-held specialty flavors and fragrances company in the world. Beforehand, Tolhurst managed global supply operations for medical-display firm Quest International, and was Vice President, Purchasing for Smithkline Beechham. A British national, Mr. Tolhurst has lived in London, Zurich, Amsterdam and Geneva.
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